Cuts to RA

[FKALL]

irishtimes.com/newspaper/bre … ing42.html

Cuts to rent allowance - paid to the poorest tenants in the private-rented sector - and changes to way it is paid, have been an “unmitigated disaster” and “need to be reversed”, according to a senior Government TD.

Emmet Stagg, chief whip for the Labour Party, said cuts averaging 28 per cent since 2009 to the maximum rent a person on rent allowance may pay, were “creating real difficulties and hardships” including homelessness, for people across the State.

Does Emmet Stagg have any BTLs?

[TheJackal]

@FKALL

https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1106/breaking42.html

Cuts to rent allowance - paid to the poorest tenants in the private-rented sector - and changes to way it is paid, have been an “unmitigated disaster” and “need to be reversed”, according to a senior Government TD.

Emmet Stagg, chief whip for the Labour Party, said cuts averaging 28 per cent since 2009 to the maximum rent a person on rent allowance may pay, were “creating real difficulties and hardships” including homelessness, for people across the State.

Does Emmet Stagg have any BTLs?

Large thread of RA here

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=41297&p=635856&hilit=rent+allowance+crosshairs#p635856

[NegativeEquity]

@FKALL

https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1106/breaking42.html

Cuts to rent allowance - paid to the poorest tenants in the private-rented sector - and changes to way it is paid, have been an “unmitigated disaster” and “need to be reversed”, according to a senior Government TD.

Emmet Stagg, chief whip for the Labour Party, said cuts averaging 28 per cent since 2009 to the maximum rent a person on rent allowance may pay, were “creating real difficulties and hardships” including homelessness, for people across the State.

Does Emmet Stagg have any BTLs?

Not sure about letting - he has experience renting tho.

[jake76]

@NegativeEquity

Not sure about letting - he has experience renting tho.

[random_punter]

@NegativeEquity

@FKALL

https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1106/breaking42.html

Cuts to rent allowance - paid to the poorest tenants in the private-rented sector - and changes to way it is paid, have been an “unmitigated disaster” and “need to be reversed”, according to a senior Government TD.

Emmet Stagg, chief whip for the Labour Party, said cuts averaging 28 per cent since 2009 to the maximum rent a person on rent allowance may pay, were “creating real difficulties and hardships” including homelessness, for people across the State.

Does Emmet Stagg have any BTLs?

Not sure about letting - he has experience renting tho.

I believe he is really in touch with the disadvantaged youth on this issue.

[slasher]

@random punter

I believe he is really in touch with the disadvantaged youth on this issue.

your innuendos should be parked

[kennyb3]

So how exactly do Labour wish to get to a balanced budget? They don’t want to cut PS pay or allowance, they want to increase RA as well. I havent seen them suggest anything that is constructive.

[evilal]

@FKALL

Does Emmet Stagg have any BTLs?

Not according to the Register of members’ interests. For whatever that’s worth. Given that there seems to be no penalty for omitting something, not sure I’d trust it.